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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Well, we had Austin's birthday party today. He was in a good mood all day. He still pulled away from me and acted like he was burned by acid when I tried to hug him, but other than that, he was pretty human. He and Savannah even helped me out by making the spanikopita.

I made him a Sox cake. I was really tempted to do Cubs just to tick him off, but I was nice. I guess the toilet cake will have to wait until next year.

Notice anything strange about the decorations?

The cake was covered with buttercream; the hat and ball were covered with fondant.

It was Savannah's idea to write, "happy birthday" on the ball like a signature.

The hat turned out pretty good. I didn't knead the color in as well as I should have and it resulted in a mottled look. It makes it look more real, I think. It looks a little dirty/dusty.

Look at Brooklyn (that little sneak!)

You can't tell from the picture, but I impressed with how smooth I got the fondant.

OK, ok enough showing off, Dawn

Party's over. Let's wear the decorations!

The birthday boy himself. He asked for Beef Jerky and M&Ms for his birthday. Goofball.

Ewwww! Mom Cooties!

This was earlier today. Brrrrr!

snowy-icy-slushy stuff on my windshield. Goodbye fall. :*(

The VTech winner is announced HERE and it's not too late to leave a comment for the Lands' End giveaway HERE.

56 comments:

The cake is WAY cool, and I was actually going to say that the cap looked like it had been worn (perhaps by my husband) which was really neat... then you pointed that out yourself. It looks great -- what did you do to make the grass (since you detailed everything else)? Great idea, Savannah on the autograph! Although how you pulled that off... two years and I can find time to take a cake class at Harper. Two years.

Oh, and ummm can I (seriously) pay you to teach me to make spanikopita? It's one of my favorite foods and one of the few that I've never figured out. Give me ANYthing else, and I'm good but that one flummoxes me.

Hey, Dawn...did you happen to buy that birthday banner at a discount party store? Too funny! The cake turned out AMAZING! I'm working on a baked turkey cake for Thanksgiving. i"m hoping it looks realistic, that's if all goes according to plan!(yeah right!) Have a blessed Sunday!

Holy Cow!! That cake looks amazing! I love the hat!! Good Job MOM!!! I'm glad things went well today. I'm not looking forward to the teenage boy years...or the teenage girl years either for that matter.

As long as people are admitting their confusion (the VTech lady), "Sox" to me meant Red Sox...until I saw the hat and realized, Duh, she lives in Chicago (and we don't just call them the Sox, but it's still early for me...).

Fabulous job, by the way. You can't toot your own horn enough, as far as I'm concerned, when fondant comes out that well! I'm also glad Austin snapped out of it. Nothing worse than spending hours on a cake only to have the recipient not care!

Looks like it was a great day. Hope you get some rest after all of that!

OK, seriously. This was my first thought: I was like, "EW, Dawn, NASTY! You put a dirty gross Sox hat on top of that BEAUTIFUL CAKE!" I SOOOOOOOOOOOOO thought that was a TRULY TRULY TRULY REAL Freaking hat! YOU ARE AMAZING!

CHicago girl here and HUGE Sox fan! Your cake is amazing, and you son is adorable (if we are allowed to call teens adorable now lol) This is my first comment here, but I love your blog, I also love the fact when you talk about the area I know where you mean. I was actually at Woodfield the other day when you did your filming, wish I had seen that! lol Happy birthday to you son!!!!

Wow, impressive fondant use...that stuff just scares the snot out of me. So when are you going to start selling cakes..you know, you're a famous author now...what other "hobbies" are you going to take up in your spare time?

Maybe I've just been living in a cave for my entire life, but what exactly is fondant? Is it a type of cream that holds shape more than regular icing? I really did think it was a real hat. Love it! I agree with the other reader who commented about your next book being about cake decorating. I'm just not that creative! Also, my other dumb question (but I blame it on living in the south and we don't have fancy things like spankonita, we have grits--see I can't even spell spankonita): what IS spankonita?

I thought you placed a real hat on the cake...I still can't believe it's fake.

It's so foreign to me to see how cold your weather is already and "Goodbye fall" comment. We're still waiting for fall weather here in So. Cal. My kids wore shorts to school last Friday. It was close to 90 degrees. It's too hot here. I'm ready for the fireplace.

OMG!! The cake looks AMAZING! I guess I am new to the fact that you make AMAZING cakes. LOL My son wants one like that..but not the Sox ..or Cubs...he likes the Braves. ;) Do you sell them? um..not that I think I could afford the cost of the cake and the shipping. lol Hmm..maybe I can just make a cake and put the baseball cap and baseball on top. lol

Again, WOW DAWN, you're amazing!! How on earth do you find time to do this sort of thing with 6 kids running around!!!?? I only have two (a 3.5 yo and a 6 month old ) and can't for the life of me even get my house straightened out!!!

well you know you could give him all 3 of them wish's a paperclip, and a pickelmilk shake as well as a tree full of blue garbls just get a realy nice gold paperclip and well get some pickelsand some ice cream (i dont know if you ever had pickels and ice cream befor or not but its good as long as you got chocalte icecream) and make him a paper tree with blue garbles in it then all 3 of his wishe's would come true as to what he said